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Court records show #Chicago #immigration raid was about #squatters, not Venezuelan #gangs

Newly revealed arrest records show that a high-profile immigration raid on a South Shore Chicago apartment building last year that became a symbol of #Trump's harsh immigration tactics actually targeted squatters, not Venezuelan gang members.

#law #SocialCleansing #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #CivilRights #HumanRights #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #ICE #Sturmabteilung #USpol
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/06/nx-s1-5703603/court-records-chicago-immigration-raid-was-about-squatters-not-venezuelan-gangs

Matt Hall

@401matthall@mastodon.xyz replied · 11 hours ago

@Nonilex

"What, ho? Dost thine claim the Federals spake unthruth?! That their divinely-inspired action against the most destitute of our citizens couldst be inspired soley for the continued fattening of purses of those who're most egregiously fattened already?"

🙄

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai replied · 11 hours ago

Quickly after the Sept 30, 2025, raid, #DHS published a dramatic video of the operation showing agents with their #guns drawn, some rappelling out of a #BlackHawkHelicopter onto the roof, & leading people [including children & people not dressed] away with their hands zip-tied.

On multiple occasions, the #Trump admin has said the building was frequented by members of #TrenDeAragua , a Venezuelan gang.

#law #immigration #SocialCleansing #CivilRights #HumanRights #UseOfForce #ICE #CBP #USpol

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai replied · 11 hours ago

But arrest records for two of the men show the government's stated reason for the raid was to take out #squatters, not #gang members. The documents were included in a motion filed in an ongoing case challenging #warrantless #arrests in #Chicago.

In the documents, #DHS stated "this operation was based on intelligence that there were illegal aliens unlawfully occupying apartments in the building." There is no mention of criminal gangs or Tren de Aragua.

#Trump #law #immigration #UseOfForce

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai replied · 11 hours ago

The records confirm "the worst thoughts that we had about the operation," Mark Fleming, the associate director of federal litigation at the National Immigrant Justice Center, told NPR.

"This is the most brazen #unconstitutional #UseOfForce in an operation that I've seen in my entire career," he said. "They have no legal authority to be addressing purported #squatters; that is not within the purview of the #FederalGovernment."

#Trump #law #immigration #SocialCleansing #CivilRights #ICE #CBP

tuban_muzuru

@tuban_muzuru@beige.party replied · 11 hours ago

@Nonilex

Maybe my brains are old and scrambled - I remember Bush41's bagman, Colin Powell, telling lies at the UN.

These Republicans sure can lie.

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai replied · 11 hours ago

Fleming represents the two men — a Venezuelan man & a Mexican man both in the country illegally — in the ongoing litigation that claims the #FederalGovernment continues to violate the 2022 Castañon Nava settlement agreement, which limits #ICE's ability to #arrest people without #warrants or #ProbableCause.

#Trump #law #immigration #SocialCleansing #EconomicDiscrimination #CivilRights #DueProcess #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #HumanRights #CBP #Sturmabteilung #USpol

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